Can a portable type definition be made?

[AKA_TG]

A Question for the elders

I have made myself a nice code template VI that I wish to re-use easily. The snag is it references a type definition in a subfolder of user.lib

so when I try to RE-use my creation I encounter the dependencies of that type definition.  (Sound familiar?)

I tried a few different things to solve this problem but got nowhere. I've never been able to figure this out on my own.

So my Q is there perhaps a procedure for doing this? 

What I am looking for is a way to write this template so that I can drop it on a block diagram then rename the type definition that supports it without screwing up the original code template

buried somewhere in user.lib

All I could think of was to disconnect the type definition and manage it manually.

[mikeporter · Accepted solution]

As you know there is such a thing as a template VI (*.vit). But there is also a template control (*.ctt). Create a template VI (with the extension *.vit) and install on its front panel a typedef control (with the extension *.ctt). When you open this template you will get a clone of it that has a clone of the control on its front panel.

Mike...

[AKA_TG]

Thank you mikeporter!

Im excited to try that out!

[AKA_TG]

Yay!

It actually works!

I will say this however ...

It was definately not easy to figure out the proper steps.

But once that was put aside I did manage make several of my personal favorite templates (that use typedefs) portable and that is worth a lot!

 Great tip Mike!